A husband and wife are to battle against each other for a seat in Scotland's upcoming council elections. Michael and Agnes Coyle will both contest fight for the same seat in North Lanarkshire which they had jointly represented on an SNP ticket in the last council term. The couple will...
A German Conservative candidate in next month's council elections has come under fire for comparing the SNP to the Nazis. German-born Reiner Luyken, a retired journalist, has had a running battle with SNP politicians who have branded the comparison "ridiculous and offensive". Hours after the candidate selections were published, Moray MP...
An emperor's gold Rolex is set to become one of the watchmaker's most valuable timepieces when it sells for more than £1.5 MILLION. The iconic Rolex Reference 6062 is widely considered by the collecting community as being amongst the most desirable Rolexes. One of only three made, the 1952 model...
Patients are to lose the "automatic right" to see a doctor as part of a rescue plan to ease pressure on a dwindling workforce of GPs. Health bosses at Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group are understood to be the first in the UK to introduce the measures county-wide as part of...
Who would win in a second referendum? That has been the question on everyone's minds following the referendum in June and the barrage of revelations that followed it. All the indicators point to Remain, but I'm not convinced. Since the shell-shock referendum I've been mindful to remove myself from the...
A luxury travel company has launched a virtual reality holiday service for executives too busy to get away. The concept, dubbed "A Journey around my room", has been designed for people who struggle to achieve a work/life balance, providing all the benefits of travel without any of the inconveniences - such as the...
By Nigel Watson Twenty years ago the belief that a UFO would take them away to a better life led 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult to commit mass suicide on Wednesday, 26 March 1997. The 18 women and 21 men, ranging in age from 26 to 72, killed...
This weekend teams from Oxford and Cambridge Universities will take to the Thames to compete in the 163rd Boat Race. The annual race will feature both men's and women's teams in a head-to-head from Putney Bridge to Chiswick Bridge. Cambridge, who beat the Italian national crew in preparation for the 2017...
I don't know about you, but flat whites really get on my wick. It's not so much the concept that bothers me - it's just a cappuccino with less froth or a macchiato with more froth - but the precedent. You see, you seldom get served a flat white in...